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by sgillen 4y ago
I watched a tear down of one of their machines, actually some decent engineering work, but a hairbrained product in the first place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ&ab_channel=AvE
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by sgillen 4y ago
This is not obvious to me, I’ve always thought of for example a toddler playing with a ball by themselves as learning basic intuitive physics.
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by sgillen 4y ago
>> modern vehicles are designed for pedestrian and passenger safety Passenger sure, but pedestrian? I’m not so sure. Maybe this is an American thing only but cars continue to get larger and larger, which is great for passenger safety,
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by sgillen 4y ago
Read a book! I got a newer phone recently with a bigger screen and it’s actually very pleasant.
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by sgillen 4y ago
None, but for some reason I have three Apple recruiters contacting me about the exact same role.
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by sgillen 4y ago
You can add many tech disciplines including large swathes of programming to the list of things being threatened by AI.
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by sgillen 4y ago
>> Even today, the privilege afforded by a life in technology and among technologists seems to set a person apart from the rest of the world to such an extent that they almost forget it exists. I agree on your second point, but those
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by sgillen 4y ago
Ironically as a Phd in an ECE department, almost everyone has heard of and uses numpy, but many people have never even heard of pandas!
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by sgillen 4y ago
If you do experience reoccurring hypomanic states, coupled with reoccurring depression the author describes as “the pit”, then you might be clinically type 2 bipolar!
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by sgillen 4y ago
Usually you don't want your electrical wires to be taking any serious mechanical load, so that disqualifies most knots who's entire purpose is to take some sort of load. That being said check out the underwriters knot, which is sp
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by sgillen 4y ago
It is also a financial decision, good researchers can pull in large grants, providing the school lots of money.
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by sgillen 4y ago
I think it mostly comes down to the fact that both are seen by many as new, exciting pieces of tech. Plus the fact that a “systems language” is well suited to crypto in the first place. The kind of person who is going to found or join a cry
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by sgillen 4y ago
That doesn’t mean we can’t root for more walkable cities!
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by sgillen 4y ago
True, but many people oppose eating even very simple animals (think clams) for ethical reasons, but have no qualms with plants. I don’t think it’s totally absurd to use the authors point to argue that maybe plants reach the level of agency
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by sgillen 4y ago
Avoiding my university or workplace from snooping on my traffic. I’ve had it where I was served an add from a server that had previously been implicated in a bot net operation. The university told me I was infected and that my computer was
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by sgillen 4y ago
Yes but the two are very related, a phd student will almost always publish papers with their advisor.
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by sgillen 4y ago
Yea echoing the other commenter I was very disappointed when I picked up a moleskin and found it felt like lower quality than the cheaper non name brand I got on Amazon.
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by sgillen 4y ago
Well, one problem when discussing DEI is there are many implementations of it. My own own departments only considers race or gender, and really only focuses on gender. Although I know many DEI programs really do take a more holistic view of
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by sgillen 4y ago
I much prefer these restrictions be made explicit, rather than the hiring committee silently discarding all the applications coming in from groups they are not currently interested in.
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by sgillen 5y ago
Counter point, maybe it just accelerates the game of cat and mouse already played between bad actors and algorithm designers, possibly leading to faster iteration and improvement of their algorithm to find hard to fake signals.
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by sgillen 5y ago
Am I the only one who thinks this actually looks pretty good? Maybe it’s because I did not play the original doom when it came out.
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by sgillen 5y ago
I think the idea is to teach less calculus, not no calculus.
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by sgillen 5y ago
I think this is a false equivalence. If a programmer has a medical emergency during their working hours that’s terrible but doesn’t put others in danger.
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by sgillen 5y ago
Playing go at superhuman levels, or playing StarCraft at above diamond level, not sure about Dota but wouldn’t be surprised if RL also outperformed hand crafted AI there as well.
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by sgillen 5y ago
>> Consciousness should be related to survival Is that not just your intuition too? Is it not possible to imagine an artificial consciousness that does not care one way or the other for its own survival?
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by sgillen 5y ago
Yes but sometimes it’s your only choice.
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by sgillen 5y ago
Wouldn’t the theoretical maximum output of a Dyson sphere (the entire output of a star) dwarf that of doing fusion yourself locally?
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by sgillen 5y ago
I too would prefer := or even =!
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by sgillen 5y ago
I would imagine it depends on the particular paper, the more experimental ones in CS, the more theory ones in math. Do note though that most math and ML practitioners use arxiv over sci-hub.
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by sgillen 5y ago
Not sure why everyone is being so negative. Taken charitably the scientist is saying "We don't currently have a mathematical definition for what consciousness is, but if we do develop one in the future, I would not be totally surp

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